Description Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of Literature and the arts.
But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with Literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism." Their concern, writes Kristeva, "remains intratheoretical: they are based on art and Literature in order to subvert the very theoretical, philosophical, or semiol.
Description Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of Literature and the arts